... and that was literally based on getting my official rejection and then the general manager of one of the dealerships I worked for saying that I was "better than" this hilariously kitchy commercial I had delivered -- the kitch being a creative solution to some truly idiotic, completely-lacking-in-taste guidelines imposed by the manager in the first place.

(Not that it has any relevance to the strip, but my commercial aired with kitch intact.)

So there you go. A little over a year since I began -- literally saying that I "just want to do something that's creatively fulfilling" -- I've finally finished my 75th strip. And a storm is a brewing.